commit a4ece7f151a5034ad9281c5be3c712cc898c1f52
Author: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Date:   Sat Mar 31 00:05:54 2012 +0200

    initial firebird support. Not tested very well

diff --git a/modules/misc/ids.nix b/modules/misc/ids.nix
index e56ab3a..ac1b937 100644
--- a/modules/misc/ids.nix
+++ b/modules/misc/ids.nix
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ in
     unbound = 48;
     prayer = 49;
     mpd = 50;
+    firebird = 67;
 
     # When adding a uid, make sure it doesn't match an existing gid.
 
@@ -134,6 +135,7 @@ in
     dovecot2 = 45;
     prayer = 46;
     mpd = 47;
+    firebird = 67;
 
     # When adding a gid, make sure it doesn't match an existing uid.
 
diff --git a/modules/module-list.nix b/modules/module-list.nix
index 986da86..e5272ae 100644
--- a/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
   ./services/backup/sitecopy-backup.nix
   ./services/databases/4store-endpoint.nix
   ./services/databases/4store.nix
+  ./services/databases/firebird.nix
   ./services/databases/mongodb.nix
   ./services/databases/mysql.nix
   ./services/databases/mysql55.nix
diff --git a/modules/services/databases/firebird.nix b/modules/services/databases/firebird.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd8fa4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/services/databases/firebird.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+# TODO review this all
+# firebird 2.5 has a fb_config script in bin which shows that eg log still
+# points to store
+
+with pkgs.lib;
+
+let
+
+  cfg = config.services.firebird;
+
+  firebird = cfg.package;
+
+  pidFile = "${cfg.pidDir}/firebirdd.pid";
+
+in
+
+{
+
+  ###### interface
+
+  options = {
+
+    services.firebird = {
+
+      enable = mkOption {
+        default = false;
+        description = "
+          Whether to enable the firebird super server.
+        ";
+      };
+
+      package = mkOption {
+        default = pkgs.firebirdSuper;
+        description = "
+          Which firebird derivation to use.
+        ";
+      };
+
+      port = mkOption {
+        default = "3050";
+        description = "Port of Firebird";
+      };
+
+      user = mkOption {
+        default = "firebird";
+        description = "User account under which MySQL runs";
+      };
+
+      dataDir = mkOption {
+        default = "/var/db/firebird/data"; # ubuntu is using /var/lib/firebird/2.1/data/.. ?
+        description = "Location where firebird databases are stored";
+      };
+
+      # logError = mkOption {
+      #   default = "/var/log/firebird_err.log";
+      #   description = "Location of the MySQL error logfile";
+      # };
+
+      pidDir = mkOption {
+        default = "/var/run/firebird";
+        description = "Location of the file which stores the PID of the MySQL server";
+      };
+
+#       rootPassword = mkOption {
+#         default = null;
+#         description = "Path to a file containing the root password, modified on the first startup. Not specifying a root password will leave the root password empty.";
+#       };
+
+    };
+
+  };
+
+
+  ###### implementation
+
+  config = mkIf config.services.firebird.enable {
+
+    users.extraUsers = singleton
+      { name = "firebird";
+        description = "firebird server user";
+      };
+
+    environment.systemPackages = [firebird];
+
+    jobs.firebird =
+      { description = "firebird super server";
+
+        startOn = "filesystem";
+
+        preStart =
+          ''
+            # create data dir
+            if ! test -e ${cfg.dataDir} /var/log/firebird; then
+                mkdir -m 0700 -p ${cfg.dataDir} /var/log/firebird
+                chown -R ${cfg.user} ${cfg.dataDir} /var/log/firebird
+            fi
+
+            secureDir=/var/db/firebird/system
+            if ! test -e $secureDir/security2.fdb; then
+                cp ${firebird}/security2.fdb $secureDir
+                chown ${cfg.user} ${firebird}/security2.fdb
+                chmod 700 ${cfg.user} ${firebird}/security2.fdb
+            fi
+
+            # create pid directory
+            mkdir -m 0700 -p ${cfg.pidDir}
+            chown -R ${cfg.user} ${cfg.pidDir}
+          '';
+
+        exec = ''${pkgs.su}/bin/su -s ${pkgs.bash}/bin/sh ${cfg.user} -c '${firebird}/bin/fbserver -d' '';
+        # postStop = "${firebird}/bin/firebirdadmin ${optionalString (cfg.rootPassword != null) "--user=root --password=\"$(cat ${cfg.rootPassword})\""} shutdown";
+        
+        # !!! Need a postStart script to wait until firebirdd is ready to
+        # accept connections.
+
+        extraConfig = "kill timeout 60";
+      };
+
+      environment.etc =
+        # think about this again - and eventually make it an option
+        [ 
+          { source = "${firebird}/firebird.msg";
+            target = "firebird/firebird.msg";
+          }
+          { source = pkgs.writeText "firebird_config" ''
+              # RootDirectory = Restrict ${cfg.dataDir}
+              DatabaseAccess = Restrict ${cfg.dataDir}
+              ExternalFileAccess = Restrict ${cfg.dataDir}
+              # what is this? is None allowed?
+              UdfAccess = None
+              # "Native" =  traditional interbase/firebird, "mixed" is windows only
+              Authentication = Native
+
+              # defaults to -1 on non Win32
+              #MaxUnflushedWrites = 100
+              #MaxUnflushedWriteTime = 100
+
+              # show trace if trouble occurs (does this require debug build?)
+              # BugcheckAbort = 0
+              # ConnectionTimeout = 180
+
+              #RemoteServiceName = gds_db
+              RemoteServicePort = ${cfg.port}
+
+              # randomly choose port for server Event Notification
+              #RemoteAuxPort = 0
+              # rsetrict connections to a network card:
+              #RemoteBindAddress =
+              # there are some more settings ..
+            '';
+            target = "firebird/firebird.conf";
+          }
+        ];
+
+  };
+
+}